Colchester and Chelmsford Snowman DF Sunday 8th February

Start: Tiptree Heath     TL 884 149
Time: Please book in by 13:00       Event   13:20-16:30
Maps Required: Western half of 168 Colchester AND Eastern half of 167 Chelmsford. (Deploying scissors and sellotape BEFORE the event may be an advantage!)

Tea  at Andrew’s TL 812 198 – please bring a bite as usual.

Maps of tea location will be available at the start if required.

This will be a two site event but each site will have one maxi and one mini (i.e four Txs to find!) 

To compensate for the extra difficulty all Txs will operate one minute in five throughout the competition. 

Full details of IDs, timings and frequencies used will be provided at the start.

Since the maxis (main stations) are separated by time not frequency an accurate watch will be a great help.  

With transmission times being completely predictable an in car monitor is unnecessary.

The Snowman Trophy will be awarded to the person finding the most stations in the shortest time.

Please book in via Topica or contact Andrew direct ASAP.  

Note

Locals and those who attended the Mid Essex will understand how this works but others may wish to look at http://www.forjac.freeserve.co.uk/dfres/mdx08/MultiTxVer8.pdf  for a general description and http://www.forjac.freeserve.co.uk/dfres/mdx08/mdx08.html for the report on the Mid Essex event.

If you have not tried this type of DF before please arrive early so that you have time to digest the full description of the event that will be provided at the start.  I hope to be there from 12.30 to answer questions but if you need more explanation in advance you can contact me on Topica or via my website http://www.forjac.freeserve.co.uk/contact.htm.

Thanks to Andrew and Richard for agreeing to be at the sharp end for this our second attempt at running an open ‘maxi-mini’ event, thus allowing me the ‘enjoyment’ of being on the receiving end. 

Roy (with event information from Andrew and Richard)

PS.  Did I hear someone say ‘What happened to the micros?’ Don’t worry the little b........s are coming  soon!